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AFFSAC schedule published
by MJ Ray 13 May '04

13 May '04

Thanks to Kevin Donnelly, the programme for the conference is now available on http://www.affs.org.uk/affsac.html as far as possible. If you register before noon on Friday, it helps us to make sure that there is enough lunch for everyone (TANSTAAFL). You need to be an AFFS member or apply to join on the day. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing

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Reminder: evening meeting in Norwich this thursday
by Syd Hancock 13 May '04

13 May '04

The next 'second thursday' evening meeting in Norwich will be held this Thursday, the 13th of May at the City Gate, Derham Road, from about 8pm. Full details are on the ALUG website. The Norwich meetings and venues pages have been updated recently Venue and meeting details: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html Venue: full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm Syd

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Norwich evening meeting: 13th May 2004
by Syd Hancock 04 May '04

04 May '04

Its going to be a busy month for ALUG. The monthly Norwich 'second thursday' evening social meet will take place this week, 8th April from 8 pm at the City Gate, Dereham Road. Full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm If you have not attended one of these meets before, they are informal and unstructured and general chat covers many topics as well as the obvious linux-related stuff. There may or may not be a penguin on the table :-) === directions etc === The City Gate pub is just off the inner ring road at the junction of Grapes Hill and Barn Road. Dereham Road is the A1074 - take the Costessey junction on the A47 if coming from west of Norwich. Otherwise, when going clockwise around the inner ring road, Dereham road is the left turn at the traffic lights at the bottom of Grapes Hill (but see parking info below). There is a very large Cane Furniture shop on the corner and this is probably the best landmark from either direction. The pub, which has a large glass frontage (see link to picture above), is next to the cane furniture shop. There is ample parking nearby, including possible free parking on the forecourt of a wine warehouse next to the pub or on side roads off Dereham Road. There is also Pay-and-Display parking (£1.40 for the evening) on the other side of the ring road off St Swithin's road. Coming down Grapes Hill turn right at the lights (St Benedict's Street) and then left into the entrance to the car park which is behind Toys-R-Us. Syd _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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Summaries: Meeting dates, EU Software Patents
by MJ Ray 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

ALUG: ---- 1. 5th Birthday Meeting at City Gate, Norwich, Sunday 2 May 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018432.html 2. Norwich UEA meeting, Sunday 27 June 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018481.html National: -------- 1. NotCon '04, Sunday 6th June 2004, Imperial College Union, London http://www.notcon04.com/ Proposals due by: Friday 14th May 2004 2. The EU Irish Presidency text rejects all amendments made by the European Parliament and pushes for direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions. The Patent Department at Nokia is collecting signatures from top company executives for a "Call for Action" in favour of the Presidency text. http://www.ffii.org.uk/ http://swpat.ffii.org/ 3. Rally in Brussels on 14 April under the slogan "No Software Patents -- Power to the Parliament" http://demo.ffii.org/ was covered by some tv channels. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Norwich sunday meetings - another suggestion
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

A couple of people have said that they can book a room at UEA, which has always been a popular choice of venue. Since the upcoming 'anniversary' get-together at the start of May has already been discussed and arranged, and since it seems best to keep that as more of a social than a technical event, I suggest that we have another sunday meet in Norwich, at UEA, to bring kit along etc, farly soon. I propose the last w/e in June, i.e sunday 28th June. Does this clash with any other planned events, local or national? As always, comments welcome especially anyone who can say that they intend to be there. Syd

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ALUG 5th Birthday Meeting - 2pm sunday 2nd May, Norwich
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

ALUG will be five on the 2nd May 2004! To mark the occasion a 'special' sunday afternoon get-together will take place at 2pm that day at the 'City Gate', Dereham Road. As well as being spacious and comfortable, the City Gate also do a wide range of food in a restaurant area (i.e it should be a cut above usual 'pub grub') so there is the possibility of having a meal as well - I'll leave that for discussion. Full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm === directions etc === The City Gate pub is just off the inner ring road at the junction of Grapes Hill and Barn Road. Dereham Road is the A1074 - take the Costessey junction on the A47 if coming from west of Norwich. Otherwise, when going clockwise around the inner ring road, Dereham road is the left turn at the traffic lights at the bottom of Grapes Hill (but see parking info below). There is a very large Cane Furniture shop on the corner and this is probably the best landmark from either direction. The pub, which has a large glass frontage (see link to picture above), is next to the cane furniture shop. There is ample parking nearby, including possible free parking on the forecourt of a wine warehouse next to the pub or on side roads off Dereham Road. There is also Pay-and-Display parking on the other side of the ring road off St Swithin's road. Coming down Grapes Hill turn right at the lights (St Benedict's Street) and then left into the entrance to the car park which is behind Toys-R-Us. Syd

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Norwich meetings
by MJ Ray 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

ALUG: ---- 1. Syd followed up with opinion poll results and asked for more help deciding on the May meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018298.html 2. Norwich evening meeting on 8th April, see http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018329.html 3. Discussion of sharing hard drives and audio capture at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018257.html 4. More on the City College "phantom courses" saga at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018258.html 5. Discussion of DVD-R-related things at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018262.html 6. Mixed reaction to ESR's latest rant at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018295.html Elsewhere: --------- 1. Europe-wide "net strike" against software patents, UK focus on Wed 12 May http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2004/demo05/ 2. LUDEx at Olympia, London, 20-21 April http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/ Finally: ------- Please keep notices, announcements and suggestions coming to announce(a)alug.org.uk! (...and no, no April Fools summary...) -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Meeting on Sunday, meeting in late April and quietness
by MJ Ray 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

ALUG: ---- 1. Meeting in King's Lynn at 2pm on Sunday 28 March, Globe Hotel http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/03-28Sun.html 2. Opinions sought on late April Norwich meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018217.html 3. Some list threads about ax25 and ALSA in 2.6, but a fairly quiet week on the list http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/threads.html Other: ----- 1. Other UK lists reported on were quiet, so here's a reminder about free tickets for 20/21 April at London Olympia http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/expo/ -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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K.Lynn, 5th Birthday, 14 April events, political news
by MJ Ray 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Thanks for sending in a few more emails to announce@ this week -- it's appreciated. More always welcome. ALUG: ---- 1. Meeting in K.Lynn on 28 March http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018135.html 2. Opinions/help wanted on late April Norwich meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018162.html 3. Reports of Norwich March meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018153.html 4. Discussions of mouse setup, source code locations, USB floppy drives, Gentoo and kernel 2.6 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/thread.html 5. Meetings list on web site completed: did you know that we just had the 55th ALUG meeting? http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/ Lugmaster: --------- 1. ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users) spring conference, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, 14-17 April 2004. http://www.accu.org/conference/opensource.html (GBP 595/495/295 whole conference, 160/135/90 day rate) Other: ----- 1. EuroLUGParty as part of event in Brussels on 14-15 April http://plone.ffii.org/events/2004/bxl04/ 2. Government consultations on "Open Source Software" policy and e-GIF (file formats etc) http://www.affs.org.uk/government/ 3. James Heald of FFII.org.uk writes about the proposed EU IPR Enforcement Directive: "Mme Fourtou got her package through, with no further amendments. The Directive is now likely to be signed off by the Council of Ministers on Thursday. Final vote was 330 to 151 with 39 abstentions." Most UK MEPs from the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties voted for the proposal. See http://www.ffii.org.uk/ for background. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Summary for 10 March 2004
by MJ Ray 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Hello! The format of this has changed, after some problems that we just couldn't fix. It's denser too. Hope that's OK. Email things for this to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk like before, please. ALUG Main: --------- 1. Norwich evening meeting on Thu 11 March at 8pm in the City Gate. http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018068.html 2. Please send opinions about a meeting in late March before the end of today (Wed). http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018108.html 3. Mandrake 10 ISOs offered. http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018082.html Debian-UK: --------- 1. Debian-UK meet in Cambridge on Sat 13 March at noon, in the Salisbury Arms. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2004-March/002073.html Lug.org.uk: ---------- 1. UKUUG have called for papers for their developers meeting in Leeds from Thu 29 July to Sun 1 August. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/cfp.shtml 2. Sheflug's GNU/Linux seminar is at SWFC on Tue 23 March. http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar.html 3. Lecture about TCPA on GNU/Linux at Cambridge Uni on 16 March. Details below. 4. The European Parliament passed IPRED. Be unhappy. Be very unhappy. Details to follow, or ask MJR at a meeting. Thanks for reading! Please keep emailing announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk -------- Forwarded Message -------- MICROSOFT RESEARCH LECTURE This is a PUBLIC lecture TITLE: TCPA Enabled Open Source platforms SPEAKER: Demetrios Lambrou INSTITUTION: Royal Holloway University of London HOST: Fabien Petitcolas DATE: 16 March 2004 TIME: 16:00 - 17:00 MEETING ROOM: Lecture Theatre ADDRESS: Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge The general purpose computer is not an ideal platform to run security sensitive operations. Implementing security services on specialized security hardware is not a cost-effective solution. The Trusted Computing Group have developed a new industry specification which adds a Trusted Computing Base to the general purpose PC with a fraction of the cost of secure hardware. When the TCB is interfaced with the Operating System, security enhanced applications and new security services can be supported by the PC. Such services provide for data integrity, full confidentiality of personal data and protection from unauthorized disclosure. This presentation describes the main concept behind TCPA and how it can be incorporated to an Open Source platform such as Linux. Developing a prototype TCPA agent, has lead to identifying possible problems and how TCPA enabled platforms can be of practical use in today`s information technology. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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